14
The Nebraska Independent
AUGUST 16, 1906
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Weekly Market Report
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LIVE STOCK MARKETS
Special market letter from Nye &
Buchanan Co., Live Stock Commis
sion Merchants, South Omaha, Neb.
South Omaha, Aug. 15. We had
cattle here Tuesday good enough to
have fetched $6.00. While they were
very good they were not the best.
Receipts continue light again this
week, to the surprise of all, and as a
result the market is strong find 10 to
15 cents higher. With the bumper
corn crop practically assured farmers
are commencing to inquire for feed
ers and as prices' of corn go lower
the demand will increase. We look
for heavier receipts of cattle next
week. We quote :
Choice steers ..
Fair to good . .
Common to fair
Bulls and stages
Choice feeders .
Fair to good
Grass cows ....
Veal calves ....
,$5.806.25
.$5.00(5.80
.$4.40(725.00
.$2.00 4.00
.$4.004.50
.$3.003.90
.$2.00()3.75
. .$4.505.50
The slump in the hog market still
continues. It has been worse in Chi
cago than here and our prices have
been about on a level with them and
in some cases higher. Range $5.65 to
$6.07 1-2.
There is beginning to be a little
weakness manifest in the sheep mar
ket this week and the demand for
these feeders at high prices is not
quite so keen. We expect to see them
sell nearer in proportion to the mut
ton sheep during the next few weeks.
Kansas City
Kansas City, Aug. 15. Cattle Re
ceipts 14,000 head. The market was
steady to strong with a top at $6.20,
and the choice export and dressed
beef steers $5.506.20; fair to good
$4.005.40; western fed steers $3.50
6.00; stockers and feeders $2.50
4.60; native cows $2.004 25; native
heifers $3.005.000; bulls $2.003.25;
calves $2.505.75.
Hogs Receipts 3,600 head. The
market was steady to weak, with a
top at $6.10, and bulk of sales $5.95
6.05: heavy $5.75(5.95; packers
$5.90 6.05; lights $5.75 6.10; pigs
$5.005.75.
Sheep Receipts 9,500 head. The
market was steady and active, with
lambs, $6.007.50; sheep and year
lings $4.505.40; western fed year
lings $5.006.00. western fed sheep,
$4.255.25; stockers and feeders $3.75
5.00.
Chicago
Chicago, Aug. 15. Cattle Receipts
4,500. Market steady with common
to prime steers $3.75 6.75; cows and
heifers $2.605.35; bulls $2.004.50;
calves $3.O0P7.00; stockers and feed
ers $2.604.25.
Hogs Receipts 15,000. Market 5c
higher on lights and slow on others;
choice to prime heavy $6.006.05;
medium to good heavy $5.85 5.95;
butcher weights $6.006.20; good to
choice heavy mixed, $5.806.00;
packers $5.505.90; pigs $5.506.10.
Sheep Receipts 20,000. Market
steady with sheep $ 4.25 5.75; year
lings $5.006.35; lambs $6.007.85.
St. Joseph
South St. Joseph, Aug. 15. Cattle
Receipts 3,147. Market steady to
weak, with natives $4.506.10; cows
and heifers $1.505.00; stockers and
feeders $3.004.50.
Hogs Receipts 7,900. Narket stea
dy to 5c lower, with lights $5.95
6.10; medium and heavy $5.806.00.
Sheep Receipts 2,130 head. The
market was steady to weak.
was steady. There were only a tew
samples on the tables and trade was
light.
Receipts and shipments were 35
cars of wheat in and 152 out, 47 cars
of corn in and 71 out, 6 cars o oats
in and 8 out.
Inspections were 96 cars in and 71
out.
Cash prices:
Wheat No. 2 hard, 65 l-266; No.
3 hard, 63 1-264 1-2; No. 4 hard 62
ft 63c.
Corn No. 2 45 l-2c; No. 3 yellow
45 l-2c45 3-4c; No. 3 white 46 l-2c.
Oats No. 3 30c; No. 3 Avhite 30 1-2;
No. 4 white 30c.
Rye No. 2 51 l-2c; No. 3 57c.
Kansas City
Kansas City, Aug. 15. Wheat
September 64 5-8; December 67 1-8;
May 71 l-8c; cash No. 2 hard 67
68 1-2; No. 2 red 6567; No. 3 67.
Corn September 44 1-2; December
40 1-4; May 40 3-8; cash No. 2 mixed
45 l-246; No. 2 white 48 1-4; No. 3
48c. '
Oats No. 2 white 36 1-4; No. 2
mixed 3232 1-2.
Minneapolis
Minneapolis, Aug 15. Wheat Sep
tember 70 5-8; December 72 l-4c; No.
1 hard 76; No. 1 northern 75c; No. 2
northern 73 l-2c.
Chicago
Chicago. Aug. 15 Wheat No. 2,
spring 7076; No. 2 red 70 l-2
71 34c.
Corn No. 2 50 l-2c; No. 3 yellow
52 l-2c.
Oats No. 2 31c; No. 2 white 321-2
33; No. 3 white 30 l-432.
Rye No. 2 57 l-2c.
Barley Good feeding 38 1-2 41;
malting fair to choice 4346.
Flax seed No.. 1 $1,071-2; No. 1
northwestern $1.11.
Visible Supply of Grain
New York, Aug. 15. Special cables
and telegraphic communications re
ceived by Bradstreets show the fol
lowing changes in available supplies
compared with previous account;
Wheat United States and Canada
east of the Rockies, increase 3,138,000
bushels; afloat for and in Europe de
creased 2,400,000; total supply in
increased 783,000 bushels.
Corn United States and Canada,
east of the Rockies,
140,000.
Oats United States
east of the Rockies,
305,000.
We publish in this issue a large cut of the Omaha Commercial Col
lege. This is one of the oldest commercial schools in the west. It was
founded by Rohrbough Bros., in 1884. It has always been a progressive
school. The new building was completed last year. It is very complete
in all of its appointments. Besides a number of large school rooms it
contains a well equipped gymnasium; a society hall used for various
school purposes and a beautiful auditorium large enough to seat the en
tire school. This handsome structure is located within one block of the
City Hall and about the same distance from the Court House. Last year
students from twenty-seven states and territories were enrolled at the
Omaha Commercial College.
decreased 1,-
and Canada
increased 1,-
Omaha Grain Market
Omaha, Oug. 15. Wheat was
tionally lower and so were oats.
frac-Corn
STATE FAIR NOTES
The State Horticultural Society will
endeavor to eclipse the record of all
former years in their exhibit of fruits
and flowers at the State Fair, first
week in September. Many new ideas
have been elaborated upon and a prac
tical demonstration will be made of
many an enterprising man's theories.
The seedless apple will be here on ex
hibition one dream of the horticul
turist is here realized. The pitless
plum has not yet arrived but the So
ciety will be pleased to meet and com
pare notes with the man who thinks
he has the proper idea of evolving
such a horticultural wonder. A free
sample of Nebraska grown fruit will
be distributed to every visitor In nor
ticultural hall on Wednesday, Sept. 5.
The Fat Stock man will be in all
his glory at the coming State Fair,
Sept. 3rd to 7th. along side his broth
er with the fine Pure Bred Stock, and
a riple of good nature already over
SDreads the countenance of both as
they contemplate the pleasing pros
pect of the sales they will gather in;
the friends thev will meet and the
pleasant outing they will have at the
Fair, when "the harvest days are
over."
The Omaha Commercial College, located at 19th and Farnam Sts.,
Omaha, Neb. Cost, including site ad equipments, $100,000. Rohrbough
Bros., proprietors. .
Seven large barns, each containing
60 stalls, full of the choice cattle.
Thirteen swine barns, each containing
38 pens with 110 additional tempor
ary pens; four horse barns, each con
taining 38 stalls filled with the very
choicest stallions to be found in the
United States, and a large sheep barn
66x100 filled with the best types ex
hibited. Mv farmer friend, this is
what you can see at the State Fair,
Lincoln, Sept. 3rd to 7th. It will
pay every farmer of this county to
attend, for here you will receive in
spiration to improve your herds.
The improvement of the individual
means the improvement of our com
munity and we are for the upbuild
ing of this county and the btate or
Nebraska.
Twentv-four counties have already
asked for space for their County Col
lective Exhibits in Agricultural Hall
at the 1906 State Fair, the first week
in September. This is great.
Those who atend the State Fair
will have an opportunity to see a
real Western League professional
eame of base ball between Lincoln
and Sioux City clubs whom the fair
management have secured to play
before the Grand Stand at the race
track on Sept. 4th and 5th.
Everv baseball "fan" or "fanme"
in the State of Nebraska have heard
of "Ducky" Holmes, the manager of
the Lincoln baseball club. Many of
these will have an opportunity of
observing this ex-Chicago , league
player in action at the State Fair
Grounds the mornings of Sept. 4th
and 5th.
Is it not worth going miles to see
more than 100 Draft Stallions, 400
head of Fat Pedigreed Cattle and
1,500 head of the best show hogs in
the west? If you think so, do not
miss the State Fair at. Lincoln, Sept.
3 to 7 One fare plus 50 cents.
Cinder walks have been laid be
tween all the principal buildings so
that hereafter there will be an -ab
sence of "mud wading" at our State
Fair the first week in September.
INDUSTRIAL ALCOHOL
Farmers Will Probably Not Be Al
lowed to Distil.
The government regulation for the
manufacture and sale of alcohol
which is to be used in the industries
will not be issued before October 1,
but several things are already known
about the intentions of the govern
ment. A correspondent of "The Iron
Age" says that the impression pre
vails in some parts of the country
that any farmer may make alcohol on
his own premises from surplus grain,
fruits, vegetable refuse, etc., have it
denatured by an official of the gov
ernment and employ it to run an en
gine to operate his agricultural mach
inery or for heat and light. Accord
ing to that authority, domestic dis
tillation will not be permitted.
Every producer of grain alcohol de
signed to be. denatured will be ob
liged to comply with all the laws and
regulations which now govern the
manufacture of taxable spirits. The
minimum capacity of a distillery will
be 500 proof gallons daily, a require
ment that will aparently shut the
farmer out of the manufacture of
alcohol, except in a very few isolated
cases. The regulations will further
provide that hefnrt tho ta
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withdrawn from the' distillery ware
house it shall be denatured in the
presence of an authorized government
officer, with an approved denaturing
material which renders it unfit for
the use as a beverage, such -material
to be furnished by the distiller at.
his own cost.
It is quite possible that in certain
agricultural sections, especially in the
great grain district of the Northwest,
co-operative distilleries may be es
tablished in which the farmers in the
surrounding country may have their
surplus products worked up into al
cohol at cost. It is considered proba
ble, however, that the use of such
cheap raw materials as molasses and
the by-products of beet sugar manu
facture will enable the large com
mercial distilleries to produce denat
ured spirits at a price so low that the
farmers, even in the most remote
regions, will find it more profitable
to buy their spirits than to distil
them.
It is to soon yet to make any esti
mate about prices, but there seems
to be a good chance that alcohol can
be obtained in most parts of the
country as cheaply as gasoline next
year say, for 20 cents a gallon or
less except perhaps in the East.